https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Switzerland in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Our round up of stories that you might have missed this week include the Mouxit, smart bins and stupid people, an underground bike station, SBB double deckers and a two decade old murder. https://www.thelocal.ch/20181116/glance-around-switzerland-mouxit-swiss-brexit-back-on-23-year-old-murder-geneva-too-stupid-to-use-bins Fri, 16 Nov 2018 13:57:30 +0100 glance-around-switzerland-mouxit-swiss-brexit-back-on-23-year-old-murder-geneva-too-stupid-to-use-bins Metals and mining giant Glencore is considering listing itself on the South African stock exchange, the world's top minerals bourse, a source familiar with the issue told AFP. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130209/glencore-considers-south-african-exchange-listing Sat, 09 Feb 2013 19:45:00 +0100 glencore-considers-south-african-exchange-listing Shareholders of the Swiss commodities giant Glencore and Swiss mining group Xstrata on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a merger of the two companies to create a goliath capable of out-muscling nearly everyone in their field. https://www.thelocal.ch/20121120/glencore-xstrata-merger-wins-strong-backing Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:02:00 +0100 glencore-xstrata-merger-wins-strong-backing Shareholders of Swiss commodities giant Glencore overwhelmingly approved a tie-up with Swiss mining giant Xstrata, during an extraordinary general assembly meeting on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20121120/glencore-shareholders-back-xstrata-merger Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:45:00 +0100 glencore-shareholders-back-xstrata-merger Shareholders in commodities giant Glencore and mining group Xstrata are to vote Tuesday on a proposed $33-billion mega merger at two extraordinary general meetings near Zurich. https://www.thelocal.ch/20121119/glencore-and-xstrata-owners-vote-on-mega-merger Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:33:00 +0100 glencore-and-xstrata-owners-vote-on-mega-merger Qatar's sovereign wealth fund said on Thursday that it will vote in favour of commodities giant Glencore's bid to merge with Swiss mining group Xstrata, giving a major boost to the deal. https://www.thelocal.ch/20121115/qatar-fund-backs-swiss-mega-mining-merger Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:50:05 +0100 qatar-fund-backs-swiss-mega-mining-merger Swiss commodities giant Xstrata called Thursday for a management shake-up at Lonmin, in which it is a major shareholder, citing serious financial problems at the platinum mining group. https://www.thelocal.ch/20121115/xstrata-seeks-shake-up-at-troubled-lonmin Thu, 15 Nov 2012 20:14:00 +0100 xstrata-seeks-shake-up-at-troubled-lonmin Swiss commodities giant Glencore says its performance in the third quarter was good, but cautioned that there is no sign that global conditions for its business would improve soon. https://www.thelocal.ch/20121101/glencore-warns-of-gloomy-global-outlook Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:37:00 +0100 glencore-warns-of-gloomy-global-outlook